Series consists of manuscript and typescript drafts, notes and final scripts of Carol Bolt's stage, television and radio plays and film scripts, including files on Bethune, Buffalo Jump, Daganawida, Desperados, Fast Forward, Fidelity Quartet, Gabe, Okey Doke, One Night Stand, Red Emma, Queen of the Anarchists, Shelter, Star Quality, Tangleflags, among others. Also included is related material, such as programmes and reviews, and manuscript and typescript drafts and clippings relating to Bolt's journalism work and work on unidentified scripts.
Additional material consists of proposals, outlines, notes, working manuscripts, typescripts and final scripts of various stage, television, radio and film projects. Interfiled is a small amount of correspondence and printed material. Carol Bolt's last produced stage play, Famous, is thoroughly documented, as well as her Red Emma libretto for the Canadian Opera Company, a play called Monsoon which was workshopped at Playwrights Works in Montreal, and a musical-in-progress, Mean To Me. Also included are scripts for the television series Fraggle Rock and Blizzard Island and her children's plays Fatso, Ice Time, Real Life Television and Rosie Learns French. There is material on her radio plays Campaneras (for which there are also stage drafts), Ninja and Yellow Ribbons. There is material on Bolt's work on the script Dangerous Patriots, for a Labour Film Project by Michael Ostroff about the Gainer's strike in 1986, as well as scripts for West on Queen Street and Vietnaming, co-written by Edwina Follows (there are also files on Follows' script Shooting the Queen of Sweden). There is a small amount of material dating back to Bolt's projects of the 1970s, including Blue, Buffalo Jump, Desperadoes, Fast Forward, Fidelity Quartet, One Night Stand and Tangleflags. There are working manuscripts for a number of unfinished projects.
Among the additional files is one called Anger, Tears and History, which contains Bolt's response to Denis W. Johnston's book Up the Mainstream, in which Bolt offers her own version of Toronto theatre history and what she sees as discrimination against women.
The series also includes one sub-series of Notebooks.
